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IN CASE YOU WEREN’T ALREADY CONVINCED, NEW EVIDENCE EMERGES DEPICTING MARK ZUCKERBERG AS A SCHEMING SHARK.

Zuckerberg’s duplicitous crimes were recounted in last year’s critical hit The Social Network. The movie retells in Hollywood fashion how Zuck deceived his original business partner as well as three Harvard upperclassmen who hired him to develop a social network.

Those allegations emerged in lawsuits against Zuckerberg filed by Eduardo Saverin and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, all three of whom prevailed in their legal fights against Zuckerberg and won millions. Now new “breathtaking” documents in a revised lawsuit filed by Paul Ceglia back up the earlier claims that Zuckerberg misled the Winklevosses and lied about Facebook’s early success.

Ceglia filed suit last year claiming he invested $1,000 for a 50 percent share of FaceBook, but those claims raised eyebrows because he had previously been convicted of business fraud.

But in his revised filing, Ceglia backs up his claims with email exchanges between himself and Zuckerberg. BusinessInsider has published the details of those evidentiary emails that the magazine calls “breathtaking.”

Among the allegations that Ceglia makes is that Zuckerberg hacked into StreetFax and crashed it deliberately after a dispute about money.

“Do you have any idea the damage you’ve done???,” Ceglia allegedly wrote to Zuckerberg. “Grow up, taking a fucking ethics class, choke yourself with that silver spoon of yours.”

It also publishes emails in which Zuckerberg claims he is “thinking of” just shutting down his prototype site because he’s too busy — just months before he incorporated in the state of Delaware and received $500,000 in from venture capitalists. The San Francisco Chronicle has put together a timeline of Ceglia’s dealings with Zuckerberg and how they align with previously published facts surrounding Facebook’s founding. The paper finds them “consistent” enough to not dismiss Ceglia’s claims outright.

Facebook dismissed Ceglia as a “scam artist” and a “convicted felon” to BusinessInsider. But the revised court papers, filed April 11 by the international law firm DLA Piper, renews questions about Zuckerberg’s ethics.

That same day in another courtroom, a three-panel of judges ruled that the Winklevoss twins’ must accept a $65 million settlement they entered into with Facebook for allegedly stealing the idea from them. The twins’ along with Divya Narendra claimed Zuckerberg deliberately misled them on the company’s true valuation when they settled on that figure. In ruling against Winklevoss and Narendra, 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote: “The Winklevosses are not the first parties bested by a competitor who then seek to gain through litigation what they were unable to achieve in the marketplace.”